Clear your calendar - It's going down! Bedford V2 kicks off on April 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Panel 2: Critical Pedagogy, Cats, and #critlib | How a monthly twitter chat is redefining the role of librarians in the public sphere and shaping the future of radical librarianship | Panelists: Annie Pho, Emily Drabinski & Sarah Hackney

community curator: Jennie Rose Halperin

Note: This month's Drink Salon will feature community announcements, discussion, and awesome music curated by DJ Lychee.

We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!

RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring I.D.

Seating is limited to 70 guests.

Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.

Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the use of the space, drinks, and food that make Drink Salon possible!

About EMW Drink Salon on Tech & EthicsEMW's ﻿Drink Salon on Tech​ ​​​​​and Ethics brings togeth​er a community and a supportive space to spark​​ ​challenging discussions on the role of technology in our ​everyday ​lives. Each month, we invite featured ​speakers to ​lead a conversation. ​We encourage salon ​guests to make new connections​ and to think critically about how technology relates to some of the most important questions we ask humanity.

Jennie is the Product Engagement Manager at Safari Books Online and librarian. Jennie is passionate about the future of libraries, and has spoken widely about information science, open source, the Internet, and community.

She is also a writer, activist, storyteller, and avid reader who counts cultural theory, museums, feminism, gardening, German, history, and tap dance among her (very) varied interests.

outreach, software, and communications at the ebook startup Unglue.it; taught Latin to middle school boys; and been a member of the Ada Initiative advisory board.

She has a BS in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an MA in Classics from Tufts, and an MLS from Simmons. She’s a 2010 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing awardee, a 2011 ALA Emerging Leader, and a 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker; and a past listener contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. She is a member of the LITA Board of Directors.

Annie is a library school student at Indiana University-Indianapolis. Her interests in libraries are: digital preservation of culture, digital libraries, providing users with access to information, art librarianship, and how technology augments the way users search for information. She is also a co-editor/writer at HackLibSchool and an editor @libraryleadpipe, an open access journal on all things librar*.

Alison is a librarian, privacy activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms.

Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.

Nima is an Iranian independent security researcher, focused on encryption, anonymity, privacy and censorship circumvention technologies. He is a core member of The Tor Project and the chief technology wizard of Library Freedom Project.

Emily is Coordinator of Library Instruction at Long Island University, Brooklyn.

She sits on the board of Radical Teacher, a journal of socialist, feminist, and anti-racist pedagogy, and edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books.

Jennie is the Product Engagement Manager at Safari Books Online and librarian. Jennie is passionate about the future of libraries, and has spoken widely about information science, open source, the Internet, and community.

She is also a writer, activist, storyteller, and avid reader who counts cultural theory, museums, feminism, gardening, German, history, and tap dance among her (very) varied interests.

outreach, software, and communications at the ebook startup Unglue.it; taught Latin to middle school boys; and been a member of the Ada Initiative advisory board.

She has a BS in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an MA in Classics from Tufts, and an MLS from Simmons. She’s a 2010 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing awardee, a 2011 ALA Emerging Leader, and a 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker; and a past listener contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. She is a member of the LITA Board of Directors.

Annie Pho is an Undergraduate Experience Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She's an editorial board member of In the Library with the Lead Pipe and a #critlib moderator. She's a cyclist, a feminist, and a friend to most cats.

Alison is a librarian, privacy activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms.

Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.

Nima is an Iranian independent security researcher, focused on encryption, anonymity, privacy and censorship circumvention technologies. He is a core member of The Tor Project and the chief technology wizard of Library Freedom Project.

Emily is Coordinator of Library Instruction at Long Island University, Brooklyn.

She sits on the board of Radical Teacher, a journal of socialist, feminist, and anti-racist pedagogy, and edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books.

Sarah Hackney is a library school student at Pratt's School of Information, where her interests include communities of knowledge creation, the power dynamics of the librarian/patron interaction, and the shortcomings of language-based communication.She is the President of SILSSA, which is the Pratt SI Student Association and ALA Student Chapter.

Evening Schedule

7:00pm

Doors open: Grab a drink, enjoy some snacks, bounce to some cool tunes ♫, and say hello to new friends!

7:30pm

Opening Remarks

No, you can't just Google it: The non-neutrality of knowledge

Jennie Rose Halperin, Community Curator

7:40pm﻿

Panel: Staying Private in Public (Libraries)

Why is privacy education particularly important to libraries and what are librarians doing about it?